US Patent Issued to Stryker on Aug. 11 for "Endoscopic camera coupler" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,275, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Endoscopic camera coupler" was invented by Wenjie Deng (San Jose, Calif.), William Huei Liang Chang (Milpitas, Calif.) and Michelle Sun (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coupler for coupling an endoscope to a camera head includes a base configured to mount to the camera head and to receive an eyepiece of the endoscope; a clamp for clamping the eyepiece in the base, the clamp configured to move laterally relative to a longitudinal axis of the coupler between a clamping position and non-clamping position; at least one clamping arm rotatably connec...